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No, because the IA is run competently without them. Internally at least. The Big X unofficially represents the IA for affairs that are both unfriendly and foreign.
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Yeah, but nation-states typically don't take it all that hot when protectors, ambassadors, or delegates run into serious trouble. Disappearing is worse because it leaves so much to the unknown.